This guy has some things to say that make sense to me. He then throws in the paragraph about techno-loonies out of the blue. I still can’t figure out the connection. If I was grading this as a student paper, I would likely draw a big X through this paragraph and write WHAT in the margin. Perhaps he confabulates the use of online tests (he seems most about the negatives of using test scores) with other issues.
Techno-loonies who believe the latest app is the solution to everything and publishers’ representatives are in the driver’s seat influencing education policy at Education Departments and in State Legislatures and if they are not stopped soon, Schools of Education, legitimate teacher preparation programs, teacher professionalism, and the education of our nations’ children, will be in jeopardy. I know these things are happening in New York State and I suspect they are happening across the country.